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Austin, Texas - John A. Brommel, 53, a resident of Austin, Texas, and the owner of a taxidermy business, pleaded guilty today to violating the Lacey Act’s false labeling provision by knowingly selling horns from a black rhinoceros to non-Texas residents and falsifying the bill of sale to conceal the fact that the actual purchasers were not residents of Texas.

Lafayette, Louisiana - A Louisiana police officer pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to accepting cash payments and other improper benefits in exchange for ignoring illegal activity at a strip club for more than five years while the officer was in charge of regulating exotic dancer permits for the Carencro Police Department. The guilty plea follows an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the FBI, Louisiana State Police and the Lafayette Police Department.

Washington, DC - Millions of images of celestial objects, including asteroids, observed by NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft now are available online to the public. The data was collected following the restart of the asteroid-seeking spacecraft in December 2013 after a lengthy hibernation.

Washington, DC - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching its 2015 “Tips From Former Smokers” campaign with a series of powerful new ads featuring former smokers who suffer from smoking-related illnesses, including vision loss and colorectal cancer.

Lees Ferry, Arizona - The public is invited to Lonely Dell Ranch at Lees Ferry for a volunteer open house event from 10:00 a.m.until 2:00 p.m. (Arizona MST) on Saturday, April 4, 2015. The park is seeking volunteers to assist with a variety of tasks related to maintaining the historic structures and orchard and sharing information about the history of this unique and special place on the National Register of Historic Places.

Washington, DC - Consumers Union, the public policy and advocacy division of Consumer Reports, today wrote three federal government agencies to raise concerns about the impact of pesticides on health and the environment, citing a new Consumer Reports story on pesticides in produce and the recent decision by the World Health Organization to classify the herbicide glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”